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In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits. I could have better spared a better man. Shak.

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

Authorship; literary skill.

quainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. Dryden.

effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. Aria di bravura ( Etym: [It.], a florid air demanding brilliant execution.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

ntleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.

One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.

Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott.

A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.

Military skill; as, to show good captainship.

One skilled in drawing cartoons.

rican bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.

One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. The judment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence. South.

A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.